I cannot get a custom menu to show up in the right sidebar, but was able to add a couple of other widgets.

I see you found it and added a custom menu titled "Fearless Acts of Cooking" to your sidebar. Nice work!

Also, I couldn't create the top navigation.

If you want to use separate menus, first make sure you have saved more than one menu on your Appearance → Menus page. Then go to the Appearance → Menus → Manage Locations tab, and make sure you've setup the one you want to use for the top navigation as the "Primary Menu."

http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/custom-menu-widget/

To have navigation in the right sidebar, you have to create a custom menu for that location, save it, and then go to appearance > widgets, put the custom menu widget into the sidebar and then from the pulldown in that widget, select the menu name you created to use in the sidebar.

To create a top navigation, you create the menu, save it, and then from the "theme location" pulldown, select the menu that you created for the top navigation location.

#content-wrapper {
	border-top: 1px solid #dcdcdc;
}
#sidebar {
	padding-top: 15px;
}

Add these to the editor in Appearance → Themes → Cusotmize → CSS to preview how it will look.

#navigation {
border-bottom: none;
}

#intro {
display: none;
}

At WordPress.com, what you want to do is to put only the specific selectors, and only the specific declarations you are adding or changing into the CSS edit window.

How can this be when I haven't edited any CSS yet???

timethief: this goes to the weirdness Im talking about.... How can I upload a screen shot to show you? Or will this work:
http://fourthingsbycablue.wordpress.com/wp-admin/customize.php#css

http://fourthingsbycablueprinting.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=editcss

It used to be all grey and looks similar to when writing a page or post. Now Its just a big ugly black bar on the right with my blog on the let...

How can I go back to the old way to edit CSS???
Has there been a wordpress upgrade that made this change?

I want the original CSS for the theme delicacy.

.hentry h1, .list-post-item h2 a {
color: #000000;
font-size: 22px;
}

There are two selectors - .hentry h1 and .list-post-item h2 a - that I've used. These don't show up in the CSS. I created these from looking at the markup (html page source) and the current CSS so that I could specifically target the post titles for you and not affect any other h1 or h2 elements in the theme. The post titles on the main blog page are links (and an h2), and the second selector takes care of that. The title on the single post page is not a link (and h1), and the first selector takes care of it.

I'm a newbie to CSS, as you'll be able to tell from my question. I'm trying to modify my post header font size and colour, so I've copied code directly from the tutorial examples. Modifying the background color & margins, padding, etc. work, but the only two things I want to change are the color (to make it black) and size (to make it smaller). But playing around with these parameters doesn't seem to have any effect. Can you please explain why or what I'm doing wrong?

My site is crunchcompass.com and the sample code I'm trying is:
h2 {
color: #ffc;
font-size: 1em;
}

Thanks very much!
Charise

The Sight and Forever themes both feature sliders that scroll automatically. You can also check out the demos of our themes with featured sliders to find others that might work for you.